Why Holistic Medicine?…

Why Holistic Medicine is a question being asked more and more these days?  In western cultures we wait until we have symptoms of a disease, and then go to a doctor who often is able to treat only the symptoms of the disease and not the underlying causes.

"When Health is Absent

Wisdom cannot reveal itself,

Art cannot become manifest,

Strength cannot be exerted,

Wealth is useless and

Reason is powerless."

HEROPHILIES, 300 B.C.

With Holistic Medicine, also called Alternative Medicine, Complimentary Medicine or Integrative Medicine, the whole body is considered in any treatment necessary and if Holistic Medicine is practiced early on, disease should seldom  be a problem.

Holistic Medicine in the broad sense of the term is a form of medicine that in its approach does not rely on drugs, surgery or any other conventional medical procedure for treating illness.  Are you weak, nauseous, drained, dizzy and broke from all the powerful drugs our conventional doctors put us on that only treat the symptoms and not the root causes?  When can you hope to get off this merry-go-round?

What does it take to stay well or for those of us who have waited too long to look at Holistic Medicine - what does it take to get well – to finally feel better?

Arthritis? Heart disease? Stroke? High blood pressure?  Cancer?  Memory and Vision problems?  Or just being plain miserable, sick or in chronic pain?  Yes, all can be treated with Holistic Medicine.

With this web site we hope to show you that there is an alternative to the merry-go-round.  Holistic Medicine treats the whole body.  The physical, environmental, mental/emotional and spiritual all play a role in both health and disease.  Conventional, or allopathic, doctors take the opposite approach by trying to take care of the symptoms with the use of drugs or surgery.  However, we cannot discount the many benefits of the conventional doctors, especially in cases of emergency surgeries and acute life threatening disease.

Holistic Medicine promotes optimal health and, as a by-product prevents and treats disease.  Holistic Medicine teaches you to take responsibility for your own health, and in so doing you will find that it is cost-effective in treating both acute and chronic illness. Most importantly Holistic Medicine when practiced religiously will prevent many acute and/or chronic diseases in the first place.

You have all heard, undoubtedly, of the increasingly expensive prices of prescribed drugs.  I believe the following quotation from Dr. John R. Lee puts the "real" problem into perspective:

"Most over-the-counter and almost all prescribed drug treatments merely mask symptoms or control health problems, or in someway alter the way organs or systems work.  Drugs almost never deal with reasons why these problems exist, while they frequently create new health problems as side effects of their activities".

It is that last sentence, in the above quote, that is most troubling to Holistic Medicine practitioners, and it will be one of the main focuses of this web site.  While it is almost impossible to fight the F.D.A, it is important to bring to light the side effects many of the most popular drugs can have on you long term and then you make the decision. 

It is up to you to decide.  Holistic Medicine teaches you that you are responsible for your health.  Come back to this site often.  New pages will be posted regularly.  You will be kept up to date on anything new in the Holistic Medicine field.  The horizon looks bright.

There was a report recently that stated that each year more and more medical school graduates are being taught Holistic Medicine principles and doctors already in practice are leaning more about "the whole body" approach.

So "Why Holistic Medicine"?  Just, by reading the material on this site you will learn why.  It will point you in the right direction to learn more about giving you and your family better health, and well being.  Plan to get off that merry-go-round.